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1 | Page AP EUROPEAN HISTORY SUMMER ASSIGNMENT 2016 Mrs. Clager Boyertown Senior High School [email protected] Please contact me with any questions you have. WELCOME TO BASHS’s AP EUROPEAN HISTORY CLASS!! I am very much looking forward to meeting you in person and to work with you through the 2016/2017 school year. European History is my love and I hope that, by the end of the school year, you will feel the same about the topic. For all of us to get a head start with the materials required by the course, you will need to do some work over the summer. Besides working your way through the first two chapters in the textbook and the first unit in the study guide, you are assigned to read the book Sophie’s World. Please note that all assignments are mandatory—due the first day of school and will be the first grades for the term. All answers need to be HAND-WRITTEN CORNELL STYLE NOTES (explained later in the packet) in COMPLETE, GRAMMATICALLY CORRECT SENTENCES WITH PROPER PUNCTUATION! Why Summer Reading and Work? 1. For most of you, this will be your first experience with an Advanced Placement Course. The volume of reading that accompanies the course material is substantial (approximately 7-12 pages nightly). This class is the equivalent of a college-level survey course in European History; the amount of work and expectations are congruent with a college-level course. 2. The analysis portion of these assignments will prepare you for the Document-Based-Question (DBQ) essay, the Free-Response-Question (FRQ), and the short answers (SA) on the AP Exam. 3. Part of this assignment will prepare you to confront and evaluate history as it relates to the AP European themes. 4. There are many skills and prior knowledge, such as the geography of Europe and key vocabulary, which you will need in order to be successful in the course. Doing these

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AP EUROPEAN HISTORY SUMMER ASSIGNMENT 2016

Mrs. Clager

Boyertown Senior High School

[email protected]

Please contact me with any questions you have.

WELCOME TO BASHS’s AP EUROPEAN HISTORY CLASS!!

I am very much looking forward to meeting you in person and to work with

you through the 2016/2017 school year. European History is my love and I

hope that, by the end of the school year, you will feel the same about the

topic.

For all of us to get a head start with the materials required by the course, you will need

to do some work over the summer. Besides working your way through the first two

chapters in the textbook and the first unit in the study guide, you are assigned to read

the book Sophie’s World.

Please note that all assignments are mandatory—due the first day of school and

will be the first grades for the term.

All answers need to be HAND-WRITTEN CORNELL STYLE NOTES (explained later in

the packet) in COMPLETE, GRAMMATICALLY CORRECT SENTENCES WITH

PROPER PUNCTUATION!

Why Summer Reading and Work? 1. For most of you, this will be your first experience with an Advanced Placement Course. The volume of reading that accompanies the course material is substantial (approximately 7-12 pages nightly). This class is the equivalent of a college-level survey course in European History; the amount of work and expectations are congruent with a college-level course. 2. The analysis portion of these assignments will prepare you for the Document-Based-Question (DBQ) essay, the Free-Response-Question (FRQ), and the short answers (SA) on the AP Exam. 3. Part of this assignment will prepare you to confront and evaluate history as it relates to the AP European themes. 4. There are many skills and prior knowledge, such as the geography of Europe and key

vocabulary, which you will need in order to be successful in the course. Doing these

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assignments in advance will help you be prepared to jump into this course and help me

evaluate your skill level in order to prepare the materials that need to be taught.

WARNING, WARNING, WARNING: Manage your Time Wisely!

Do not wait until the last remaining weeks to start your assignment. Pace

yourself. This will allow you to be successful on the assignment and help you

to gain time management skills that will be NECESSARY for success in an AP class.

Homework in an AP class is roughly two (2) hours per night. As busy students, time

management is CRUCIAL to your school success.

You will NOT be able to do this work in the last two or three weeks before

school begins!!!!!!!

Do not Plagiarize!!!

You must cite pages and USE YOUR OWN WORDS!!! Any plagiarism/cheating will

result in an F on the ENTIRE summer assignments, reporting to administration and

the possible removal from the AP European course.

I AM SERIOUS!!!!! I check all papers for plagiarism!!!!

Materials Needed for the Summer Assignment:

Textbook, The Western Heritage since 1300 by Kagan,

Ozment, Turner

Accompanying Reading and Note Taking Study Guide

(Above book and packets provided by BASH.)

Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder

Flashcards (3x5 cards)

Some Notepaper

(These materials need to be purchased by the student.)

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ASSIGNMENTS

EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE HAND-WRITTEN IN CORNELL STYLE,

TYPED WORK IS NOT ACCEPTED

Cornell Note-Taking Technique

1. What is this?

a. Power Point explanation

http://www.slideshare.net/StudySkillsDIT/cornell-notetaking-10562364

2. Notes

a. General format

http://www.elcamino.edu/faculty/bpeppard/english-b-

textbook/cornell.png

or

http://www.collegeofthedesert.edu/students/asc/SiteAssets/Pages/studysklls/Corn

ell%20Notes.pdf

3. Pre-printed pages

http://www.ebstc.org/TechLit/notes/cornellbasic.jpg

or

http://freeology.com/wp-content/files/cornellnotetaker2.pdf

or

http://freeology.com/wp-content/files/cornellnotetaker3.pdf

(Just click on either freeology.com link and then click on the paper example that

shows up in the middle of the page and print

4. Your own note paper

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Zok43mfJQRw/TPblNr0o5-

I/AAAAAAAAAB4/j3UVml-5RTo/s1600/Cornell%2BNotes%2BExample.gif

5. Student Example of Cornell Notes

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=student+examples+of+cornell+notes&id=F

27A53B502F0030DFFD77C130AFA7CAB877D18D0&FORM=IQFRBA#view=detail

&id=F27A53B502F0030DFFD77C130AFA7CAB877D18D0&selectedIndex=0

6. Help?

If you need help with how to do Cornell notes, please contact me through

[email protected] . There are also many helpful tools on how to do Cornell

on the internet.

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Textbook Assignment I: Due the FIRST day of class.

Read “What is the Western Heritage” (green pages xxxi

[this number is not printed on the page, only the next one]-

xxxiv) and answer the questions on page xxxiv, numbers 1-5.

(See sample question format below.)

CORNELL NOTES EXAMPLE ANWER STYLE

KEY POINTS DETAILS 1.1. How have people

In the West defined

themselves in contrast

with civilizations

(1) Of the ancient East

(2) In contrast with

Islamic civilizations

(3) In contrast with less

economic. developed

regions in the world

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__YOU_ANSWER_FOR_(1)_HERE________________________________

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___YOUR_ANSWER_FOR_(2)_HERE______________________________

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____YOUR_ANSWER_FOR_(3)_HERE_____________________________

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SUMMARY

(Short summary of/questions and thoughts about the section you just read.)

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Textbook, Assignment II: Due the FIRST day of class.

Read “The Introduction: The West Before 1300” (pages xxxv-Iviii)

Answer each of the “Review Questions” on page Ixxx in grammatically correct,

complete sentences with proper punctuation. Please write your answers as in-

depth as possible, four to five (4-5) sentences should be sufficient. Organize all

seven questions in the following format. Here is question (1) organized for you:

CORNELL NOTES EXAMPLE ANWER STYLE

KEY POINTS DETAILS 1.1 How was life

during the Paleolithic

Age different from that

in the Neolithic Age?

1.2 Present the broad

outlines of the history of

the earliest civilizations

in Mesopotamia and

Egypt.

1.3 What was the

significance of Hebrew

monotheism for the

future of Western

Civilization?

___YOUR_ANSWER_HERE______________________________________

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____YOUR_ANSWER_HERE_____________________________________

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__ YOUR_ANSWER_HERE______________________________________

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SUMMARY

(Short summary of/questions and thoughts about the section you just read.)

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Textbook, Assignment III: Due the FIRST day of class

Read “Chapter 9, The Late Middle Ages: Social and Political Breakdown, 1300-

1453” (pages 257-279) and, as you read, fill-in the corresponding pages 1-12 in

your Reading and Note-Taking Study Guide which will be provided to you when

you pick up your textbook. (Make this study method a habit because you will not

have enough time to reread the chapters to fill-in the Study Guide.)

As you read, CREATE FLASHCARDS for the terms stated on page 13 of your Study Guide. Bring them to class; we will have a vocab quiz first day we meet.

Vocab quiz FIRST day of class.

Assignment IV: Map of Europe Due the SECOND day of class.

Fill in the map of Europe on the next page, page 6, with the appropriate

nations/regions/cities and be prepared for a quiz of the modern map of Europe.

Map quiz SECOND day of class.

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Sophie’s World Assignment V Due the first day of class.

Get a copy of the book and START THIS

ASSIGNMENT EARLY. You should give

yourself at least two to three weeks to

get through it.

Read Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder and answer the

following questions IN CORNELL NOTE STYLE. If there

is no diagram or chart required for your reply, please answer

in three to five grammatically correct sentences with proper

spelling and punctuation.

I. Who are you? (Before you read the book.)

II. In the beginning

A. Origin of philosophy

B. Parallels between philosophers and small children. (Venn Diagram)

III. Mythological vs. natural view of philosophy (Venn Diagram)

IV. The Natural Philosophers:

A. Democritus

B. Fatalism

C. Socrates

1. Similarities and differences between Jesus and Socrates (Venn Diagram)

D. Plato

E. Aristoteles

1. happiness

F. Differences and similarities (Venn Diagram format):

1. Socrates and Plato

2. Plato and Aristotle

V. Hellenism

A. Definition

B. Explain: “Rome conquered Greece, but Greece captured Rome.”

C. Compare and contrast: Cynics, Stoics, and Epicureans (Venn Diagram)

D. Compare and contrast western and eastern mysticism. (Venn Diagram)

VI. Two Cultures: Romans and Christians

A. Paul’s Christianity in the Greek and Roman World. (Venn Diagram)

B. How does one can become a human being?

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V. The Middle Ages

A. What is the spirit of the Middle Ages?

B. Compare and contrast Greco-Roman culture. (Venn Diagram)

C. How did each of them survive in the long-run?

D. St. Thomas Aquinas

VI. The Renaissance

A. What were the effects of the Renaissance?

B. “Knowledge is power.” Who said it and why is it so important?

C. In YOUR OPINION, what was the most important scientific discovery of the day,

why?

D. Newton

E. Martin Luther

F. Compare and contrast Martin Luther’s works with those of the Renaissance

philosophers. (Venn Diagram)

pol. rel.

VII. The Baroque

A. What were the political and religious elements of the times? (Chart)

VIII. Rationalism vs. Empiricism: differences, similarities (Venn Diagram)

A. Who belongs into which category and WHY? Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Hume,

Berkeley (Chart)

Rationalism Empiricism Why

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IX. The Enlightenment

A. What happened during this time and why is the epoch so important for

Western Civilization?

B. Who were the important Enlightenment philosophers and what thoughts did

they develop? (Chart—there will be more names than lines in this sample chart.)

Name Philosophy/Works

X. Emmanuel Kant: time and space

XI. Romanticism. (What is it and why is it so important)

XII. Compare and Contrast the Enlightenment with Romanticism. (Venn Diagram)

XIII. What group of philosophers did Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx, Darwin, and Freud

represent? What processes was each philosphé famous for?(chart)

Group Name Philosophy/Works

XIV. Compare and Contrast western philosophy before and after the mid-1800s. (Venn

Diagram)

XV. Nietzsche: “God is dead.”

XVI. Simone de Beauvoir: the feminist movement

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Assignment VI Due the first day of class.

Please transfer the following vocabulary words into your Cornell Notes and define each term in

one to two complete, grammatically correct sentences with proper punctuation.

NOT EVERYBODY WILL HAVE THE SAME VERSION OF THE BOOK—SHOULD

THE GIVEN PAGE NUMBERS NOT MATCH YOUR ISSUE, JUST LOOK A LITTLE

IN THE ADJOINING PAGES AND YOU SHOULD FIND WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING

FOR.

Sophie’s World: Study Guide

Page Term

22 myth

30 philosopher's project

34 rationalism

45 materialism

52 fatalism

62 rhetoric

62 sophist

62 agnostic

65 Socratic irony

67 philosopher vs. sophist

115 ethics

115 The Golden Mean

127 Hellenism

130 Cynicism

131 Stoicism

131 monism

131 dualism

133 Epicureans

134 Neoplatonism

136 Mysticism

152 pantheism (201)

153 monotheism

202 empirical method

231 determinism

240 quantitative/qualitative

241 dualist

249 ethics

250 monist

262 empiricism

264 primary and secondary qualities

274 agnostic

309 existential angst (457)

317 deism

351 dynamic view of history

352

Universal Romanticism and National Romanticism

354 Romantic Irony

365 dialectic process

368 dynamic logic

394 dialectic materialist

397 alienation (457)

398 exploitation

406 naturalistic

433 id

433/34 ego

434 superego

436 parapraxis (Freudian slip)

456 existentialism

458 nihilist

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460/61 absurdism 464 paradigm shift

IN SUMMARY: Please answer each question in grammatically correct, properly

spelled and punctuated sentences. Four to five sentences per answer will be sufficient.

1. Who was your favorite philosopher in this book? Why?

2. Who are you? (2)

3. Is there life after death? (4, 13)

4. Where does the world come from? (5)

5. Could anything have always existed? (7)

6. How was the world created? (13)

7. Do you believe in Fate? (47)

8. Is sickness the punishment of the gods? (47)

9. What forces govern the course of history? (47)

10. How ought we to live? (13, 130)

11. What is the relationship between the body and mind? (235)

12. Where do we get our ideas from? Can we really rely on what our senses tell us? (263)

A LAST NOTE OF ADVISE:

1. Any shortcut on your end about the summer reading will backfire when you come to school.

2. There will be two essay tests about the book and some of the philosophers. To get a good grade in either one of these essays, you must have read the book. (NOT during the first days of class. Breathe. )

3. So, read the book, answer the questions and savor the thought that you have actually learned something during the summer that you will be using for the rest of your academic career.

Can’t wait to meet you! See you soon. Have a GREAT

summer. Be Safe! Birgit Clager